Read the extract below and answer the following question:

(In the Town Hall)

Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?

Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!

Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?

Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.

• A. epilogue
• B. soliloquy
• C. mime
• D. aside

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s ''The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born''.

By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that

• A. there is very little hope for genuine change
• B. all corrupt politicians shall be ousted
• C. the military is the hope for salvation
• D. the beautiful ones will soon be born

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles. The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

In Launko's End of the War, the Casualties are

• A. women
• B. soldiers
• C. children
• D. men

A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

• A. Drama
• B. comedy
• C. Prose
• D. Poetry

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, hasthis thing appeared again tonight?

B : I have seen nothing

(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

This thing refers to a

• A. ghost
• B. horse
• C. guard
• D. soldier

AFRICAN POETRY

In what ways are the fortunes of the Rich and the poor linked in "Homeless not Hopeless"?

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'The eyes of the house dog sprawled between my legs followed, full envy, piece after piece of fish down the throat of his master, my host.'

Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy

The dog in the passage

• A. followed his master about
• B. ran after his master's fish
• C. caught the fish between the legs
• D. watched as his master ate the fish

A short poem lamenting the death of someone is

• A. an ode
• B. a threnody
• C. a sonnet
• D. an epic

What binds the speaker and addressee together is their _______

• A. hatred for Othello
• B. fear of Cassio
• C. fear of Cassio
• D. hatred for Brabantio

An 'Aside' occurs when a speaker on stage

• A. addresses another speaker
• B. mumbles words intended for the audience only
• C. mumbles words heard by the audience and actors
• D. reveals his intentions